[QUOTE]"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq," Bush said. "And I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that." [/QUOTE]

finally !!!

maybe now he will fire rummy. if he were 100% on this, rumsfeld would be in cancun this weekend enjoying a nice long vacation.

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we should give em the same treatment we gave saddam.

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nah, unfortunatley rummy is gonna be on the team for awhile, but def. expect things to shake up alot in the first half of 2006!

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[QUOTE=anonin]nah, unfortunatley rummy is gonna be on the team for awhile, but def. expect things to shake up alot in the first half of 2006![/QUOTE]

I've actually heard that Rummy intends to "resign" very soon, likely by the middle of January. Front runners to succeed him include his second in command (name escapes me right now) and Lieberman. I guess he's been waiting for the Iraqi elections, then he'll bow out as quietly as possible. I'm sure Bush will give him some sort of medal or something on his way out...

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link to a story re my comment above about Rumsfeld leaving:

[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/372921p-316984c.html[/url]

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It's quite amazing how so many have srewed up, yet most still have their jobs.

Seems no one is being held accountable.

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[quote=daveman][IMG]http://www.bush2funny.bravehost.com/mugshot.jpg[/IMG]

we should give em the same treatment we gave saddam.[/quote]

We can only wish.

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my treatment to saddam and the rest of the world would be to rebuild his castle with better plumbing and give the place back to him.

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Maybe that explains Lieberman's recent take on the war efforts. However, I agree that Bush sticks by his people(a good quality of a manager btw), so I guess if Rumsfeld wants to stay then it's doubtful Bush will fire him.

Back to the President, it seems like he's been on a roll to pump up his approval numbers recently with exclusive interviews with NBC, Fox, and probably others. Also, this admission of a mistake is another example to help his poll numbers. And his numbers are up recently, so it is working. I'm guessing that if the Iraqi elections go well then he'll get higher ratings.

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So Rumsfeld if the fall guy? I love how they use their pawns.

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[QUOTE=Kobe]So Rumsfeld if the fall guy?[/QUOTE]

No way. He'll be lauded for all he's done for the country. No way will his leaving be tied to anything having even the most remote suggestion that anything went wrong.

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[quote=thesightless]my treatment to saddam and the rest of the world would be to rebuild his castle with better plumbing and give the place back to him.[/quote]

hmmmm. thats a good idea. america should go around the world promoting good plumbing and not democracy. good plumbing could be the answer to world peace. all the places with hot beds of terror and problems have bad plumbing. you could be onto something.

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somebody needs to tell bush that the costly mistake he made, killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, over 2 thousand soldiers that had nothing no say in the war of iraq and billions of dollars of tax payers money.

Nevermind says bush, lets reform our intelligence agency so we can attack Iran.

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[quote=dig72]It's quite amazing how so many have srewed up, yet most still have their jobs.

Seems no one is being held accountable.[/quote]

So when and where was Clinton held responsible for lieing under oath. He was impeached for lieing, but was he held responsible.

NO!

Not to mention all the scandals of that administration. ChinaGate, HillaryMediGate, oh, I've forgotten them all now, something like 10 total.:shock:

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[quote=thesightless]finally !!!

maybe now he will fire rummy. if he were 100% on this, rumsfeld would be in cancun this weekend enjoying a nice long vacation.[/quote]

Not to mention all the links that tie the Clinton adminstration and their foul-ups, but of course its all Bush's fault, while there are country's dancing in the street rejoicing for the freedom they are having with elections and democracy.

If I was Rumsfeld, I would take a break to pat myself on the back for 'a job well done'.

Iraq is winning that war with the help of Allies, whether or not you all like it. They will succeed, because once freedom begins, you can't take it away.

Maybe some here should go live in Iran!

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[quote=Kobe]So Rumsfeld if the fall guy? I love how they use their pawns.[/quote]

This might sum things up for you..[URL="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4538788.stm"]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4538788.stm[/URL]

watch the interview.. oh yeah, guess whose name keeps popping up??????? RUMFUCK & Cheney CHODE... HHHMMMM

cheers

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[quote=robprunzit]So when and where was Clinton held responsible for lieing under oath. He was impeached for lieing, but was he held responsible.

NO!

Not to mention all the scandals of that administration. ChinaGate, HillaryMediGate, oh, I've forgotten them all now, something like 10 total.:shock:[/quote]

Sorry Rob, but what are you talking about?

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he is speaking about the 10 or so occurences where bill or hillary of one of their siblings were found to be doing illegal things but never got prosecuted b/c he/she was in office. they should both be in prison for the real estate shit they pulled off, they have evidence of back dealings and what not. frankly though, they are both out of office, so lets get over it and look to getting someone good in office next round. maybe guiliani.

bill and hillary essentially made the democratic party the party of ""do as i say, not as i do"" i.e. they protect all their money under trusts which they publicly deem wrong, she trashed the lowering of the investment tax but then put even more money into tax sheilded accounts. just one example.

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[COLOR=silver]I'm sorry but didn't we spend several hundred million dollars and several years investigating Whitewater, only to come up with... an unrelated blowjob. If there was anything there, they would have nailed him for it, don't you think so considering how hard they tried? Either way, it is still better than DeficitGate, 2,300deadAmericaSolidersGate, CIAleakGate, UncontestedHaliburtonContractGate, BushIsSpyingOnYouGate, FEMAgate, and the religious right if you ask me. Clinton might have had shady dealing in his private business, but he left the country out of it. Bush, Cheney, Haliburton etc's shady private business dealings are all of our problem, and it is dragging this country to new lows. But Iraq has never been better, maybe. What did we accomplish again?[/COLOR] [COLOR=silver][/COLOR] [COLOR=silver]And why does every discussion about Bush's shaky record always come back to Clinton? I might as well bring up how Reagan, (and GHWB and Rumsfeld) armed Iraq in the first place. And for that matter trained the Taliban and created AlQueada. At least it would be relevant. [/COLOR]

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yep. it goes all the way back to 1947 and the UN charter law of creating isreal. we didnt belong meddling with a region and placing a nation. but ppl screaming at one guy when the guy b4 him is just as at fault is wrong. if anything, clinton fucked up more for only sending a missle at thier camps and pissing them off more.

also though, there is a lot more ""clinton-esque"" scandals out there than a blowjob and whtiewater. they are just long forgotten cuz most people dont care. i know i dont, im just looking forward to guiliani's time in office. he owes no one in politis anything and shoots it straight.

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I want to believe that but RG turned me off big time when he campaigned for W.

John McCain is a republican who I believe stands for something, and believes in it. But since he won't tow the party line, they will never back him. Gotta keep those religious nuts happy, ya know. ;)

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fuck em all, im gonna do what i want to anyway. i dont murder, rape or pillage so im OK i think, im not gonna get arrested anytime soon for eating vicoden or drinking too much so i dont worry, just keep my taxes down, keep the cops and firemen around and fix the roads and im happy. i hate all the popular gov't figures in one way or another, so i just vote for those who can actually try to accomplish something. hence the only vote i have put forward in the last 8 years was for bloomberg. he is a prick, but he gets shit done.

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[quote=Kobe]I want to believe that but RG turned me off big time when he campaigned for W.

John McCain is a republican who I believe stands for something, and believes in it. But since he won't tow the party line, they will never back him. Gotta keep those religious nuts happy, ya know. ;)[/quote]

Flip the coin for just a moment and answere the question from the opposing side.

Zell Miller, or even Lieberman who is in office now. Do you think the Democrats (or just the Left) will back them? They stood for something in their own party, and I don't see many in their party standing with them or behind them in the views they express, which they clearly believe in.

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[quote=thesightless]he is speaking about the 10 or so occurences where bill or hillary of one of their siblings were found to be doing illegal things but never got prosecuted b/c he/she was in office. they should both be in prison for the real estate shit they pulled off, they have evidence of back dealings and what not.[/quote]

Thanks for clearing things up.

Don't know too much about Clinton other than him recieving the most famous blowjob in history.

Although legal, the pardon given to Marc Rich by Clinton was also a little disturbing imo.

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[quote=thesightless]he is speaking about the 10 or so occurences where bill or hillary of one of their siblings were found to be doing illegal things but never got prosecuted b/c he/she was in office. they should both be in prison for the real estate shit they pulled off, they have evidence of back dealings and what not. frankly though, they are both out of office, so lets get over it and look to getting someone good in office next round. maybe guiliani.

bill and hillary essentially made the democratic party the party of ""do as i say, not as i do"" i.e. they protect all their money under trusts which they publicly deem wrong, she trashed the lowering of the investment tax but then put even more money into tax sheilded accounts. just one example.[/quote]

Your right about that, and it is forgotten because the press never made much out of it and let it die all the B & Hillary joy I'm sure.

You know much of the scandals of the Clinton terms were really huge, so when dig72 asked what are you talking about, I would not be surprised if he really is serious in the question. The media did not keep those scandals on the front pages.

Such as selling military weapon secrets to China, such as the death of Vince Foster, such as the rape of " name fails me ", and another woman who was somehow hurt sexually by Clinton and it was all but covered up. Such as the documents found in Hillary's personal possession after she said she never had or had seen them. (what they were I forget now).

The blow job was only a catalyst which they were able to hang him, but the press turned it into a joke or personal matters, which it really was.

Clinton was a liar and in a totally different camp then the now president of America who will go down in history as accomplishing great task, whether or not people like it or not. He has for more than 4 years kept America from being attacked again, and has made 3 countries free (more than 60,000 people now have rights - like you and I have in our countries) . That is accomplishment!

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That is spin. Look no further than his revolving justification for the war and tell me if his goal was to free Iraq. That was a unnecessary consequnce of the money grab. But the revisionists will gloss it all over in a golden sunsut just like they did with drug dealer/arms trader Reagan and all we'll remember is the lovable idiot who freed Iraq. :roll:

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[QUOTE=robprunzit] the now president of America who will go down in history as accomplishing great task, whether or not people like it or not. [/QUOTE]

Obviously history will ultimately resolve this, but my sense is that Bush will go down in history as one of the worst presidents we've ever had.

Furthermore, I think he'll also be remembered as the person in charge during a period of time that we'll all be ashamed of looking back:

[LIST] [*]Regardless of whether you think it was justified or not and whether you believe it was ordered from someone higher up the chain or the work of a few bad apples, it is clear that people have been tortured at the hands of Americans. Our children will read history books that include a section about how Americans tortured people -- that's a first.

[*]That same history book will also include a chapter about the president authorizing warrantless wiretaps of US citizens -- I'm pretty sure that's a first as well, although there might have been some of that during the McCarthyism era.

[*]There will also be a chapter about how our intelligence system completely broke down, resulting in the premature invasion of another country.

[*]Although I'm hopeful this won't be the case, that history book might also include a chapter about how we got our asses handed to us by a loosely organized insurgency from a third-world country with no air force and no navy. [/LIST]

All of this, and more has happened on Bush's watch. Will history forgive him because all of these problems also occurred after the worst terrorist attack in our nation's history? Maybe -- but I doubt it.

My opinion, take it for what it's worth...

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[quote=Kobe]That is spin. [/quote]

[COLOR=silver]Its all spin – on [I]both[/I] sides of the aisle. That’s the nature of modern politics (at least modern [I]American[/I] politics), those who scream the loudest and the longest will eventually be heard. Bush is neither the silver spoon fed retard who has only the interest of the rich in mind, nor is he the pious “aw shucks” everyman who is just as comfortable on the farm as he is in the west wing. Those are the images created by media savvy players on both sides and the vaaaast majority of America, red and blue, is all too willing to lap it up. The truth, as usual, lies somewhere in between.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=silver]What is troubling to me is the ease in which most people (worldwide) accept what they are told without a second thought. Wrap it up in a slick package with a clever title (i.e. Fahrenheit 9/11) or throw all the bells and whistles at your disposal (i.e. Fox News) and you can make accuracy an afterthought. Most Bush haters across the globe have no problem believing a report that is unwaveringly anti Bush regardless of how blatantly bias it may be, but give them some evidence of Bush’s success and they cry “Spin! Spin!”. Naturally the reverse is just as true – Ann Coulter can recite the evils of the left wing in her sleep, but ask her what Bush’s plan for border control is and you are suddenly a recruiter for Al Qaeda. It rings very similar to the recent debate on theology we had here. Make the slightest motion away from the Judeo-Christian idea and you’re a heathen. Entertain the existence of a higher power, even for a moment, and you’re a bible thumper. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=silver]Topics like the Iraq War and domestic terrorism are so insanely complex that it is impossible to have one unified opinion, or one singular cause. To say that the only reason Bush invaded Iraq was for $$/oil is just as asinine as saying the only reason he invaded was to free the nation. People love a good story so reports full of mystery and intrigue get swallowed up much quicker than the truth. Shady backroom agreements between army generals and oil drillers sound sexy and exciting, and prove the fanciful notion that those in power are corrupt to the core. The image of a good Christian soldier releasing the noose of tyranny around a Muslim country and spreading the greatness of democracy makes for a great read, emboldens the faith of the faithful in their leader. What both of those have in Hollywood potential, they lack in realism – the world just does not operate on such smooth, even actions and events. There are way too many players involved, decisions to be made and secrets to be kept for something like a world war to take place by causes such as those. [/COLOR]

[COLOR=silver][COLOR=silver]Conspiracy theories like that are the results of one too many Tom Clancy novels made movies. And its rather apparent that most people are either totally unaware or barely intereseted in finding out for themselves[/COLOR] [/COLOR]

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THAT is THE most honest and intelligent post i have read here. if only more ppl thought like that we would move forward. like i said, i hate all politicians for exactly what you reasoned above. bush did good things and bad things, so did all his predessors. im sure the country didnt want us to get involved in the european campaign of WW2 but we did. same shit for everything the leadership of this country has done since the advent of the 1900's/

i think the biggest thorn in the side of government in america is CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CSPAN. every decision that might be made is instantly thrown into the spotlight before it is thought over and debated and put into law. who knows, maybe all the wiretaps were hidden b/c they weren't PC and they only tapped ppl of middle eastern and northern african descent. then where did they go wrong? they found the target feild and examined it. we will never know. just think of when ONE SOLITARY SENATOR had said something about starting a draft, when 99 others and puerto rican reps didnt, every news station reported that we were going to have this huge draft that encompassed every kid from 17-40 years of age.

also to go along with toasty,

no textbooks go into depth on how we had japanese internment camps, cuban's being arrested without warrent during the nuclear crisis, sending missles from afar at regions we were supposed to be at peace with, illegal manipulation of the markets in the 90's through endless lobbying and payments.

they are all wrong, everyone of them

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I agree, top post BSully. I admit I get swept up on the partisanism. Thank you for the reminder that there is truth and bullshit on both sides.

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[quote=robprunzit]You know much of the scandals of the Clinton terms were really huge, so when dig72 asked what are you talking about, I would not be surprised if he really is serious in the question. The media did not keep those scandals on the front pages.

Such as selling military weapon secrets to China, such as the death of Vince Foster, such as the rape of " name fails me ", and another woman who was somehow hurt sexually by Clinton and it was all but covered up. Such as the documents found in Hillary's personal possession after she said she never had or had seen them. (what they were I forget now). [/quote]

This is true, the media never splatterd Clinton's scandals all over the papers, well not in Australia anyway. During the Clinton years it appeared that the US military was used in helping end certain conflicts in the world. This was a peaceful time in US history. Clinton was regarded by the media as a man of peace. This definitely worked in his favour and being well travelled, spoken and born with good looks never hurt him either.

GWB on the other hand, well, where do I begin?

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I don't know about his looks with that big ole nose, but overall I suppose he is attractive.

Hey, I appreciate the words. The one thing that bothers me about Clinton, aside from the scandalous activity, was that he was ultimately a weak defender.

He let Bin Laden go, when Sudan had him and offered the man to us, but Clinton said to pass him to the Saudis, they refused and Afghanistan took him in. The rest is history there.

When he sent a missle over and bombed an aspirin factory, pretty bad intelligence, but it was never taunting as bad intelligence, nothing like todays issue. I think that was pretty bad intelligence though.

He was weak on Saddam for 8 full years, allowing Saddam to shoot missles at observance aircraft patrolling the no fly zone of Iraq. He was also weak on Saddams playing games with the inspectors who were giving the run around time and time again when they wanted to inspect certain facilities. The inspectors were never allowed a sneak inspection without several days notice first. How could they possibly do their job this way.

The terrorist activities which happened during his 2 terms were simply not dealt with, ie, the first bombing of the World Trade Center in NYC, which was for the most part unsuccessful. The boat drive in bombing of the military ship USS Cole, which killed a couple dozen sailors I think.

Some others, but I think you get the point.

Hardly time to make points about how Clinton lessened the size of the military and destroyed our CIA. Yet he doesn't get any blame now for what he did to both departments. A retireing CIA director in Bush 2's first term said it would take 8 years to get the CIA back up to what it was during Reagan and Bush 1 eras.

Oh well, probably nobody could give a shit, so why I am wasting my time here.

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I actually agreed with the Coalition set up with the UN and many others to keep Serbia from continueing genocide on ethic muslim Albanians in Serbia. And by that Milosevic was overturned by the people of Serbia. That was beautiful, though my conservative Republican party here in the US didn't back Clinton, I did back Clinton on that one.

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[quote=robprunzit]... because once freedom begins, you can't take it away.![/quote] Sure you can! You just put 1 G.W. Bush in charge and voilla! Instant loss of freedom(s). :lol:

Sorry couldn't resist :oops: